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Cities in India, worst air first, day by day

Each measured city's average over the 30 days to every day since January 2023, worst first. Find your own city to follow it through the race, or keep to one country.

CountriesCities
The 30 days to11 Jul 2026 That day's board

The worst cities in India for PM2.5 over the 30 days to 11 Jul 2026: Gurugram 110.4 µg/m³, Karnāl 72.9 µg/m³ and Bahadurgarh 71.8 µg/m³.

  1. 1GurugramHaryana110.4
  2. 2KarnālHaryana72.9
  3. 3BahadurgarhHaryana71.8
  4. 4BhiwāniHaryana68.4
  5. 5MānesarHaryana68.4
  6. 6Charkhi DādriHaryana65.4
  7. 7FaridabadHaryana64.4
  8. 8JīndHaryana63.9
  9. 9NarnaulHaryana62.9
  10. 10RoparPunjab57.0
  11. 11NohanPunjab57.0
  12. 12BawānaDelhi56.6
  13. 13BhiwadiRajasthan55.9
  14. 14GummidipundiTamil Nadu54.9
  15. 15MuzaffarnagarUttar Pradesh54.0
  16. 16DispurAssam50.4
  17. 17NarelaDelhi50.1
  18. 18DhāruheraHaryana49.5
  19. 19PāliRajasthan48.5
  20. 20BaddiHimachal Pradesh48.3

+ 185 more cities, 48.2 µg/m³ and below

Not counted on this day, too few days measured: Panipat since 10 Jul 2026, Ludhiana since 10 Jul 2026, Dera Colliery Township since 8 Jul 2026 and 8 more cities.

30 days7 days
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthyVery unhealthyHazardousWHO 24-hour guideline, 15 µg/m³Fades where it stood: not counted that day

A city's number is its average over the 30 days, shown only when 21 of them were measured (5 of 7 on the 7-day race), the same minimum as the 30- and 7-day boards. A city whose monitors go quiet fades out where it stood rather than sliding down, so a gap never reads as cleaner air. Some large countries are thin or missing because their monitors' licences don't allow reuse. How we rank.

Not covered: the government monitoring networks of China and Turkey, which publish only on their own websites; we are building the readers for them. Most cities there are missing from this board, not clean. Why.